Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victoria, British Columbia, a furious oath battle raged all week between the Provincial Minister of Public Works. Hon. Rolf Wallgren Bruhn (born Swedish, naturalized British) and the Minister of Education, Hon. Joshua Hinchliffe (born British...
That the State Crown, made in 1838 for Queen Victoria, was flimsily built and has been slowly sinking down upon itself, was revealed last week by a spokesman for George V. Able goldsmiths have just restored the Crown, declared the royal announcement. Adding new gold "they have reblocked it an inch higher, a necessary repair, for it had sunk so much and become so insecure that His Majesty could not have worn it much longer." George V observed with satisfaction that each of the 3,000-odd stones in his reblocked headgear, diligently polished, now twinkle and gleam anew. (Startled...
When Queen Victoria Eugenie "fled from Spain" it was the Duke of Zaragoza who opened the throttle, made the royal wheels go round and tooted a last loyal farewell ? then promptly turned Republican...
...River above the falls to spend the night. A stiff breeze that had been blowing upstream fell away. In the morning, rivermen found the icy gorge below the falls strewn with dead swans. Some 50 survivors sat huddled on the floes. Despite restraining efforts by officials of the Queen Victoria Park Commission, Riverman William ("Red") Hill, famed survivor of two trips through Niagara's rapids in a barrel (TIME, July 13), picked his way out on thence, frightened the foolish swans into taking wing, flying to safety...
Oscar Wilde swathed her in orchidaceous epigrams. The learned Sir Edmund Gosse called her "the most accomplished living poet of India." Even Queen Victoria was impressed by Sarojini Chattopadhyav, the brilliant daughter of a fabulously rich Hindu of the highest Brahmin caste - but all that was years & years...